My dad bought me the PacMan one at one point. I was pretty underwhelmed with arcade games back then, and had more fun with the home consoles.

I like this version of 3D FPS Pacman:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/briderider/fps-man

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Was just playing VCS games today. I have to say that 2600 version of Ms. Pacman was a vast improvement, but too little too late I guess.

I debated that part of it when posting but then realized, hey, if South Park can make a Canadian look like a PacMan with two dots for eyes and a fully bisecting mouth, this has gotta be at least reasonably okay.

Well then.

"Hi Retroboy! Here's all these powerpoints that you can't spend! Muahaha!"

It's like telling pacman he's on a diet or something.

Off to sifttalk we go.

http://videosift.com/talk/How-about-a-little-love-for-long-time-but-low-star-members

Since you host Factual Gamer, I thought you would want to know about Googlemaps new feature (maybe one day only) to turn any neighborhood into playable PacMan. It was great!
Enjoy
Newt

YES! I have the best memories of jumping my two year old blue ass over fences. Ladybug was a shameless pacman ripoff though.

Still nothing beat hunt the wumpus and especially parsec on the ti99.

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The followup to the Atari 2600 Pacman, Ms Pacman, shows what it could've been:

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>> ^Auger8:

Nuff said grins
>> ^surfingyt:
however to use this spot the ghosts can not see you go in.

>> ^ant:
Hmm, it looks like you need a specific pattern and moves to make that happen. I tried MAME's Pac-Man and went directly to that spot, but one of the ghosts got me.



Ah!

Nuff said *grins*
>> ^surfingyt:

however to use this spot the ghosts can not see you go in.


>> ^ant:

Hmm, it looks like you need a specific pattern and moves to make that happen. I tried MAME's Pac-Man and went directly to that spot, but one of the ghosts got me.

i wish i had known that years ago. however to use this spot the ghosts can not see you go in. description reads...

"So where is that infamous hiding spot on the arcade game pacman? Well, I'm gonna show ya in this video.

This hiding spot was NICE for the pacman fanatic back then because the ghosts will never touch you...ever!! Perfect for when you needed a bathroom break."

Hey, thanks for taking the time to explain. Much appreciated. Rock on, srd. :-)


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Well, this explanation is what happens on the hardware level, i.e. in the wiring inside the CPU. On the software side you can emulate the carry-over by allocating several pieces of memory and checking bounds and doing carry-over manually. So you're manually programming around the hardware constraints.

Trouble here is, the programmer has to anticipate that the given constraint isn't sufficient for the use case and needs to be worked around. For scores this was obviously the case. For the levels, I'm pretty sure that noone ever really anticipated that someone would go through 255 levels of pacman.

It's basically the same expectation management on a human level that brought us the fear of the Y2K problem.

Well, this explanation is what happens on the hardware level, i.e. in the wiring inside the CPU. On the software side you can emulate the carry-over by allocating several pieces of memory and checking bounds and doing carry-over manually. So you're manually programming around the hardware constraints.

Trouble here is, the programmer has to anticipate that the given constraint isn't sufficient for the use case and needs to be worked around. For scores this was obviously the case. For the levels, I'm pretty sure that noone ever really anticipated that someone would go through 255 levels of pacman.

It's basically the same expectation management on a human level that brought us the fear of the Y2K problem.